Michael Djupstrom is a composer and pianist whose music has been commissioned by many major institutions including the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Tanglewood Music Center. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (including a 2014 Pew Fellowship), S&R Foundation, and many other organizations. As a performer, he focuses especially on chamber music, having appeared at festivals and in cities throughout the world. In Philadelphia, he teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music. While in residence, he focused on the composition of a new string quartet commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for the acclaimed Dover Quartet. The work, which finds its inspiration in the classical and folk music of Romania, premiered in March 2018 at the 25th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival.
Michael Djupstrom
Studios
Irving Fine
Michael Djupstrom worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…